Descendants of
William Galloway and Elisabeth Adam
Fife, Scotland.
Generation#1
William Galloway (my
gtx3 grandfather) was born in 1786 in Perth,
Perthshire, son of James Galloway, Tide Waiter (customs
officer who boards ships to inspect goods) and Jane Bonthron. William
married Elisabeth Adam, daughter
of William
Adam, Shoemaker and Jean Smith
of Auchtermuchty. Elisabeth was the 7th
child of a family of 8 – some of her brothers continued in the trade of
shoemaker in Auchtermuchty. Records from
1851 show that William Galloway and Elisabeth Adam and family lived at
Burnside, Auchtermuchty where William was a handloom weaver. Other records however suggest that he also served
in the Army. On son David’s death
certificate he was recorded as Army Pensioner and on some census records as
Chelsea Pensioner, suggesting that he may have sustained injuries. Family stories tell of an ancestor serving at
the Peninsular Wars (1808-1814) and losing a leg. Was this William Galloway?
Every Scottish county
was required to produce a set number of recruits for Army service, many of whom
were selected by ballot. Every man who signed up for a lifetime in the Army
received a bounty of 11 guineas, a considerable sum of money in those
impoverished times, and a great temptation to a labourer earning a shilling a
week.
The 2nd Battalion was
raised in Perth 9th July 1803, from men of Perth, Elgin, Nairn,
Cromarty, Ross, Sutherland, Caithness, Argyll
& Bute.
The family of William Galloway and Elisabeth Adam included:
2:1 William Galloway, 1806, Auchtermuchty
2:2 Jean (Jane)
Galloway, c. 1818, Auchtermuchty
2:3 John Galloway,
c. 1823, Auchtermuchty
2:4 David Galloway, 1825, Auchtermuchty. (My gtx2
grandfather)
If these were the only offspring of William and Elisabeth
the gap of many years between the first 2 children might be explained if
William was serving in Spain
for some years.
Elisabeth Galloway (Adam) died at Burnside, Auchtermuchty in
1860 aged 74 years following some time of “general debility”. She was buried at Auchtermuchty Churchyard.
William Galloway died at his daughter’s home at Coalyard,
Dysart in 1879 at age 94 years.
Generation#2:1
William Galloway,
handloom weaver was born 5 April 1806 and married Mary Anderson Stark at
Auchtermuchty on 20 April 1829. They had
3 children:
2:1:1 William Galloway, 30 July 1830, Auchtermuchty
2:1:2 Mary Galloway, 7 July 1832, Auchtermuchty
2:1:3 George Stark Galloway, 1 July 1834, Auchtermuchty
Wife Mary died 12 July 1836 and William
married Euphemia Clunie at Auchtermuchty on 29 Oct 1838. Euphemia
was the widow of George Butchart, a local farmer. The couple had 3 children:
2:1:4 Margaret Galloway, 12 April 1839, Auchtermuchty
2:1:5 Euphemia Galloway, 29 Oct 1843, Auchtermuchty
2:1:6 Elizabeth Galloway, 24 Jan 1846, Auchtermuchty
2:1:1 William Galloway
was aged 20 years and living with his family at Burnside, Auchtermuchty at
census in 1851. The family including his
11year old sister, Margaret were all working as Hand loom weavers.
William married Janet (Jessie) McLaren in
Strathmiglo on 20th July 1855. They both seem to have been
residing in Edinburgh at this time - William's occupation was given as
Waiter and Janet's as House servant. They appear to have
emigrated to Canada shortly after and the family were living at
Biddulph, Middlesex North, Ontario in 1871. By 1881 they were at
St Patrick's Ward, Toronto, in 1901 in West City, Toronto and in 1911
the widowed William Galloway was living with his daughter Mary
and family at 57 Bellevue Avenue, Toronto. William was employed
in Canada as a Mechanic, Iron Foundry worker and later Foundry manager.
The family of Willam and Jessie included:
2:1:1:1 William Oswald Galloway, 15 April 1859, Ontario
2:1:1:2 George Stark Galloway, 10 Aug 1865, Ontario
2:1:1:3 Mary Galloway, c. 1867, Ontario
2:1:1:4 James White Galloway, 12 April, 1870, Ontario
2:1:1:5 John Lees Galloway, 10 Aug 1874, Ontario
Jessie Galloway died at 57 Bellevue Avenue in 1909 and William at
the same address in 1912. They are buried at Mount Pleasant
cemetery, Toronto along with some of their family.
George Gordon Galloway, third
son of William Oswald Galloway graduated from the University of
Toronto in 1915 with Honours in Maths. He enlisted that year with the
26th Battery of the Seventh Canadian Artillery Brigade. He was in
the front line in France in charge of telephonists and was killed in
February, 1916. He was buried at Bailleul.
2:1:2 Mary Galloway
married Ebenezer Donaldson at
Auchtermuchty on 1 Dec 1856. The couple
had 10 children and appear to have moved around Fife
from Auchtermuchty to Pittenweem, Cupar then Kirkcaldy. By 1881 and through to 1891 the family were
living in quarters at the Old County Prison, where Ebenezer was Prison
Governor. Family:
2:1:2:1 Mary Stark Donaldson, 16 May
1857, Auchtermuchty
2:1:2:2 Janet Donaldson, 2 March 1859,
Pittenweem
2:1:2:3 William Galloway Donaldson,
17 June 1861, Pittenweem
2:1:2:4 George Donaldson, 6 May 1863,
Cupar
2:1:2:5 James Donaldson, 28 Jan 1866,
Cupar
2:1:2:6 Ebenezer Donaldson, 14 July
1868, Kirkcaldy
2:1:2:7 David Donaldson, 24 Feb 1871,
Kirkcaldy
2:1:2:8 Euphemia Donaldson, 9 Aug
1873 Cupar; d. 1878, Cupar
2:1:2:9 Catherine Clark McGregor
Donaldson, 17 Dec 1874, Cupar
2:1:2:10 Euphemia Donaldson, 1879,
Cupar
Mary Galloway died in Kirkcaldy in 1906. Husband Ebenezer (and
son William G.) sailed on the 'S.S. Mauretania' from Liverpool to New
York in June 1909 en route to Toronto to visit his brother-in law
William Galloway at Bellevue Street, Toronto. His next of kin was
Miss Donaldson at 'Craigoores', Kirkcaldy. Ebenezer died at his home
'Craigoores', Abbotshall Road in 1916.
In the Obituary in the Fife Free Press 19 February 1916 "The Late Mr Ebenezeer Donaldson" was described as "being of a forcible spirit" and "His promotion in the Constabulary Force was very
rapid. He was appointed Detective for the whole county
and in that capacity had many notorious criminals through his hands." "While serving at Cupar he obtained further
promotion on being appointed governor of H.M. Prison at Cupar." "In the prison work he was ably assisted by his
wife, who predeceased him eight years ago, and who acted as matron, and proved
herself a most capable official, instituting in the prison a system of washing
for the public in the district."
Family tombstone at Cupar reads:
The Righteous shall be in Everlasting Remembrance.
Sacred to the memory of
Euphemia Donaldson
Who died at Cupar Prison
18th April 1878 Aged 5 years
Also James
who died at Middelburg Transvaal
and interred there on
2nd February 1905 Aged 39 years
Also Mary Galloway wife of
Ebenezer Donaldson
Who died at Kirkcaldy on
22nd July 1906 Aged 74 years
Also Ebenezer Donaldson
Governor H.M. Prison Cupar
Who died at Kirkcaldy on
16th February 1916 Aged 82 years
Their son David Donaldson
Who died 3rd May 1954
and his wife
Barbara Murray
Who died 3rd May 1946
Eldest son William
Galloway Donaldson became a Minister and in 1891 he was at Kelso North
parish, Roxburghshire. He married Bella
Thomson Adam at Cupar in 1892 and suffered a coronary embolism in the
pulpit of his church, the Old
Parish Church,
Forfar on 25 November 1934 at age 73 years.
His brother David Donaldson who was living at Camuslang, South Lanarkshire
was the informant at the registration
of his death.
William Galloway Donaldson was educated at Cupar, St. Andrew's
University and Edinburgh University and was elected a Fellow (OF)
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 23 January 1905.
Rev. W.G. Donaldson played a very active role in the Forfar community
notably during the war years, 1914-1918 and his sermons and views often
reported in the "Forfar Herald". This report of the Kirkin' of
the Council in Forfar 1917 perhaps reflects the man:
The
service was conducted by the Rev WG Donaldson, who in a discourse based on the
words, ‘Launch out into the deep’ Luke 5: 4 discussed various social questions
that would have to be tackled after the war. “ It was very evident that when
the war was at an end, nothing would be as it was before. The whole race of
men, loosened as it were from its old moorings, would be capable of entering on
a new course. There was a restlessness, an excitability, that made us critical
of every institution and organisation in the land, and after the war we would
be faced with a new situation and a new set of problems that would require
wisdom, patience and skill in leaders of Church and State, and a vast amount of
forbearance on the part of the people at large. The need for generals,
admirals, munitions workers, sailors and soldiers seemed the paramount need of
the hour, but the history of nations showed that their destinies resided in men
who had an insight into the forces moving in Society, who saw through the shams
by which people were deluded, and who spoke the plain and difficult truth
without fear or dismay. The Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into
Industrial Unrest revealed a formidable situation full of danger and conflict.
It was abundantly clear that the old order with which we were content before
the war could not be preserved. One of the first duties that lay before us was
to cease speaking of any section of the British people as the ‘lower orders.’
We must remember that ‘The rank is but the guinea stamp, the man’s the gowd for
a’ that.’ The war had shown that it was no longer thought necessary that there
must be a submerged tenth, a poverty-stricken class lying at the bottom of the
social fabric. What was to happen when three million men were disbanded from
the Army, and possibly, another three million poured out from munitions works?
Were poverty and unemployment to be rampant through the land? Was it only when
Britain was at war her people were to be prosperous and enjoy good wages? Then
also there was the relationship of capital and labour, always in a state of
anarchy and strife, and likely to be more urgent after the war. The problem to
be solved was how to distribute the wealth of the nation’s industry so as to
give sections of the population such a share as would keep the wolf from the
door and permit them to live a fuller, higher life, without which it was
difficult to see why any man should think his country worth fighting for. It
was estimated that there were 5000 tramp children in Scotland and England,
utterly uncared for. No one would venture to say that no pity was ever shown
for these little ones, but that pity did not destroy the death-breeding slums,
nor did it carry nourishing milk to the starving child nor give knowledge to
the uneducated mother. Were the civic fathers, in whose hands were the larger
interests of the community, seeing to the children being properly nursed? Were
they seeing that they had decent, healthy homes to live in? Were they making
sanitation and the benefits of public health legislation minister to their
proper upbringing so they would grow up into strong manhood and gracious
womanhood? The religion needed today must have the ring of reality and
sincerity about it. A religion of easy commonplaces was without vitality and
would never rouse any heart, much less capture the world. It must be broad
enough to embrace every form of civil and municipal life, and it must be deep
enough to touch the springs of human motives. The men who come back from the
war will have seen into the realities of things; and if they were to be
influenced by religion, it must be what it was meant to be- a power, a
discipline and an inspiration to enable them to carry the same heroic spirit
into the great tasks of life.” (Forfar Herald 16/11/1917)
2:1:3 George Stark Galloway
appears to have been sergeant in the Army. He enlisted with the
Royal Engineers Corps in Oban 4 May 1867 for a proposed term of 12
years. At this time he gave his trade as Stone cutter and
Surveyor. He married Lavinia Jamieson, (born in
Unst, Shetland Isles) on 27 June 1873 in Edinburgh.
He was discharged from the army at Hereford in 1888, 21 years after he
had enlisted "in consequence of the termination of his second period of
limited engagement". Most of his service was in England with a
year in Malta (August 1873 - 1874). By 1891 the
couple was living at South Leith, Edinburgh and George’s occupation was given
as Compulsory Officer, School Board. George Stark Galloway died at his home 16a Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh in 1901 aged 66 years. His wife Lavinia also died there in 1916 aged
86 years. Jessie Thomson (nee Janet Hill
Robertson) ‘Adopted daughter’ was present and was Informant at the death
registration.
2:1:4 Margaret Galloway
never married and in 1891 she was still living at Burnside, Auchtermuchty employed
as a factory linen weaver. Her niece, Euphemia
Galloway, also a factory linen weaver was living with her. Margaret died at Burnside in 1921 aged 81
years. She died of influenza and
bronchitis; the informant was her nephew John Mechie of Upper Greens,
Auchtermuchty. John Mechie was son of
Margaret’s half sister Janet Butchart.
2:1:5 Euphemia Galloway delivered an
illegitimate daughter:
2:1:5:1 Euphemia Galloway, 24 April 1862,
Auchtermuchty.
In 1882 she married John Gray, a dyer - probably in the linen
manufacture trade. The couple were found at 50 Long Causeway Perth in 1891.
In 1923 Euphemia Gray, by then a widow died at Burnside,
Auchtermuchty aged 80 years. The
informant was her nephew John Mechie of Upper Greens.
Her daughter Euphemia Galloway did not marry and died at
Auchtermuchty in 1935.
2:1:6 Elizabeth
Galloway married James Traill, a
slater and plasterer in Auchtermuchty in 1868.
Their first 5 children were born at Auchtermuchty, the youngest Jemima
at Falkland and by 1891 census the family were
at 16 Back Street,
Pathhead, Dysart. Elizabeth died at Kirkcaldy in 1907. Children:
2:1:6:1 John
Traill, 4 Dec 1868; d. 1872, Auchtermuchty
2:1:6:2 Euphemia Traill, 10 June
1871; d. 1872, Auchtermuchty
2:1:6:3 William Galloway Traill, 28
Dec 1872, Auchtermuchty
2:1:6:4 James Traill, 27 Jan 1875; d.
1875, Auchtermuchty
2:1:6:5 Eliza Traill, 1876,
Auchtermuchty
2:1:6:6 Jemima Traill, 1879, Falkland
Generation2#2
Jean, also known
as Jane Galloway married John Murray at Auchtermuchty on 25 Oct
1839. 1851 census shows the family
living at Burnside, Auchtermuchty and that John
was a handloom weaver. In 1861 the
family was at Main Street,
Dysart and John was still a linen
weaver. His daughters were also involved
in the weaving industry as either powerloom or handloom weavers and 13 year old
Margaret as a winder. 1871 and the
family were now at 33 Coalgate, Dysart – John
a China
merchant. John
died in 1872 and by 1881 Jean was carrying on as china merchant. Living with her were her recently widowed
daughter, Jane Henderson and 2 grandchildren Alexander Henderson, aged 2 months
and 2 year old Elizabeth Henderson.
Daughter Jane’s fisherman husband John
Henderson had drowned in a gale with his brother James at the mouth of Dysart
harbour in Feb 1881.
Jean Murray died in 1893 at 18 High Street, Dysart of senile decay,
aged 73 years. Her son John Murray of 146 Mid Street, Sinclairtown was
informant.
Family of Jean Galloway and John
Murray:
2:2:1 John Murray,
c. 1840, Auchtermuchty
2:2:2 Charlotte Elizabeth Murray, c. 1841, Auchtermuchty
2:2:3 Elizabeth Murray, 24 Dec 1845, Auchtermuchty
2:2:4 Margaret Murray, 20 Sept 1847, Auchtermuchty
2:2:5 Isabella Murray, 2 Dec 1851;d. 1 Feb 1856, Auchtermuchty
2:2:6 Jane Murray, 14 Nov 1855, Auchtermuchty
2:2:1 John Murray was unmarried aged 60 years and
living alone at 146 Mid Street, Dysart in 1901.
His nephew John Murray
Matthewson and family were at the same address.
Both John Murray and John M Matthewson were employed as Linoleum workers.
Linoleum was pioneered
in Scotland
by Michael Nairn who developed the first Scottish Floorcloth Factory in 1847. It was not until 1870 that the name linoleum
was universally accepted and factories opened all over Kirkcaldy. Today linoleum is manufactured by Forbo-Nairn.
John Murray died
in Kirkcaldy in 1923.
2:2:2 Charlotte Elizabeth
Murray was a Powerloom weaver prior to her marriage in 1864 to George Matthewson, labourer in the
lineoleum industry. They lived in Dysart
and had a family of 8 children – 2 died in infancy.
2:2:2:1 Isabella Matthewson, 5 Aug
1864; d. 1865, Dysart
2:2:2:2 George Matthewson, 24 June
1866, Dysart
2:2:2:3 John
Murray Matthewson, 25 Jan 1870, Dysart
2:2:2:4 Jane Laing Matthewson, 18
April 1872, Dysart
2:2:2:5 Charles Matthewson, 29 Oct
1874, Dysart
2:2:2:6 Robert Laing Matthewson, 22
Jan 1877, Pathhead
2:2:2:7 David Dryburgh Matthewson, 16
April 1879; d. 1879, Dysart
2:2:2:8 Alexander McNeil Matthewson,
17 April 1881, Kirkcaldy.
Charlotte Elizabeth Matthewson died in 1907 at Dysart.
2:2:3 Elizabeth Murray at
age 15 in 1861 was a handloom weaver.
She married Alexander McNeil,
a seaman, at Dysart on 1 Jan 1872. In
1891 the family was living at 27 Coalgate, Dysart and Alexander was a “Retired”
seaman. Children:
2:2:3:1 Jane McNeil, 25 Oct 1872,
Dysart
2:2:3:2 Daniel McNeil, 5 April 1874,
Dysart
2:2:3:3 John
McNeil, 1876, Dysart
2:2:3:4 Jessie McNeil, 1879, Dysart
2:2:3:5 Elizabeth McNeil, 1882,
Dysart
2:2:3:6 Alexander McNeil, 1885,
Dysart
2:2:4 Margaret Murray
married James Allan, fisherman, at
Dysart on 30 Sept 1867. In 1881 the
family was living at 3 Nether
Street, and in 1891 at 7 South Street,
Dysart. It appears that they had 9 children but at
least 4 died in infancy. 1911 census shows Margaret and James
still living at 7 South Street along with their grandson Thomas Allan
(son of Alexander who died in 1900). The information reveals that
Margaret, then married 43 years, delivered 13 live children of which only 4 were still surviving (John, Thomas, Margaret, Rachel)
2:2:4:1 Alexander Allan, 4 Sept 1868,
Dysart
2:2:4:2 John
Allan, 27 Feb 1870, Dysart
2:2:4:3 James Allan, 3 April 1872; d.
1872, Dysart
2:2:4:4 Jessie Allan, 3 May 1873; d.
1874, Dysart
2:2:4:5 Jean Allan, 25 May 1874; d.
1874, Dysart
2:2:4:6 Margaret Allan, 1875, Dysart
2:2:4:7 Thomas Allan, 1877, Dysart
2:2:4:8 Charlotte Allan, 1880; d.
1884, Dysart
2:2:4:9 Rachel Allan, 1885, Dysart
2:2:5 Isabella Murray
died on 1 Feb 1856 at Burnside, Auchtermuchty, aged 4 years of Scarlatina. She was buried at Auchtermuchty churchyard.
2:2:6 Jane Murray (also
known as Jeanie) married John Henderson, fisherman, at Dysart on 22 May
1876. They had 2 children:
2:2:6:1 Elizabeth Henderson, c. 1878,
Dysart
2:2:6:2 Alexander Henderson, 1881,
Dysart (? also called John)
John Henderson
drowned in 1881 and Jeanie Murray bore an illegitimate daughter at 33 Coalgate:
2:2:6:3 Jeanie Henderson, 19 Aug
1886, Dysart
By 1891 Jeanie had married an Englishman, William Dower, a pit worker and the
extended family were living at 196 Roslyn Street, Dysart . William and Jeanie’s son was born about 1888:
2:2:6:4 Alexander Henderson Dower, c. 1888, Wemyss.
Generation#2:3
John
Galloway married Sabina Wallace
in Strathmiglo on 17 Nov 1853. Sabina,
a powerloom weaver was lodging at Strathmiglo in 1851 – with her was her
daughter Margaret, aged 6 years who had been born in Strathmiglo. From censuses it appears that Sabina had been
born aboard ship (American coast) circa 1827.
John and Sabina’s first sons
were born at Strathmiglo but by1861 the family were at Wemyss and John was a Tenter in a powerloom factory. In 1871 the
family was at Cupar and John was
Under Manager at the factory and the family remained in Cupar until after 1891.
John
Galloway died in Wemyss in 1900 and Sabina also at Wemyss in 1903.
Their family:
2:3:1 William Galloway, 12 Dec 1857, Strathmiglo
2:3:2 John
Galloway, 2 March 1860, Strathmiglo
2:3:3 George Galloway, 1 July 1862, Wemyss
2:3:4 Margaret Galloway, 1 Feb 1865, Cupar
2:3:5 James Galloway, 11 Dec 1866, Cupar
2:3:1 William Galloway,
powerloom tenter, married Margaret Bell,
linen weaver, on 30 April 1880 at Cupar. They moved to Wemyss circa 1883 where
they raised their family:
2:3:1:1 John
Galloway, 1880, Cupar
2:3:1:2 David Galloway, 1882, Cupar
2:3:1:3 William Galloway, 1884,
Wemyss
2:3:1:4 James Galloway, 1887, Wemyss
2:3:1:5 Margaret Mitchell Galloway,
1890, Wemyss
2:3:1:6 Sabina Wallace Galloway,
1892; d. 1894, Wemyss
2:3:1:7 Jane (Jeanie) Bell Galloway, 1895,
Wemyss
2:3:1:8 Andrew Wishart Galloway, 1898,
Wemyss
2:3:2 John Galloway, aged 21 years in 1881 was living
with his parents at Skinner’s Steps, Cupar.
His occupation was French Polisher.
On 1 November 1885 an illegitimate daughter Mary Galloway was born to John Galloway, French
polisher, and Margaret
Sandeman, domestic servant, at 25 South Lindsay Street, Dundee.
Both mother and father signed as Informant.
Margaret Sandeman (maiden name Pirnie) had married James
Sandeman, Tailor's cutter, in Dundee in 1882 and also in that year this
couple delivered a daughter Margaret (Maggie) Sandeman. It is uncertain when James Sandeman died but John Galloway
married Margaret M Pirnie, domestic
servant of 16 South Lindsay Street,
Dundee on 8 Aug 1887. No mention was made on the marriage certificate of Margaret's previous marriage.
In 1891 John, his wife
Margaret and 4 children were living at 42 South Tay Street, Dundee. In 1901 John,
still a French polisher, Margaret and family of 7 were living at 129 Leith Street, Edinburgh.
In both these censuses Margaret Sandeman was named as Maggie Galloway.
( It was Margaret Robertson (married name)who was Informant at her
mother's (Margaret Pirnie/Galloway) death in 1928.)
The family of John Galloway and Margaret Pirnie:
2:3:2:1 Mary Hunter Galloway, 1 Nov 1885, Dundee
2:3:2:2 John
Galloway, 1887, Dundee
2:3:2:3 William Pirnie Galloway, 1889, Dundee
2:3:2:4 Sabina Galloway, 26 July 1891,
Dundee
2:3:2:5 James Galloway, 1892, Dundee
2:3:2:6 Jane Ann Galloway, 1895, Edinburgh
2:3:3 George Galloway. No records were found for George. He was not listed with the family in 1871 - presumably
he was deceased.
2:3:4 Margaret Galloway
died at Cupar in infancy in 1865.
2:3:5 James Galloway
became an assistant teacher at a public school but died of TB at Currie, Edinburgh in 1899, aged
32. His brother William Galloway of East Wemyss was Informant on the death certificate.
Generation 2#4
David Galloway,
handloom weaver, married Margaret Ford of Strathmiglo at Perth on the 2nd August 1853. The family spent the years prior to 1864 at
Auchtermuchty, then moved to Dysart. In
1881 they were living at 16 Back
Street, Dysart – David’s occupation given as
Shipping Porter and his daughters’ linen weavers. Wife Margaret died at 7 Loughborough Road, Dysart in 1890. David died at the home of his daughter
Wilhelmina and husband Andrew Adamson (59 Rosabelle Street, Sinclairtown,
Dysart) in 1907 aged 82 years. Family:
2:4:1 William Galloway, 30 March 1854; d. 1855, Auchtermuchty
2:4:2 Isabella Galloway,
24 June 1855, Auchtermuchty (My
great grandmother)
2:4:3 Peter Galloway, 3
April 1857, Auchtermuchty
2:4:4 Elizabeth
Galloway, 20 Aug 1859, Auchtermuchty
2:4:5 Lucy Galloway, 16 Dec 1860, Auchtermuchty
2:4:6 Jane Galloway, 22 May 1864, Dysart
2:4:7 Wilhelmina Galloway, 18 May 1866, Dysart
2:4:8 Agnes Galloway,
13 July 1868, Dysart
2:4:9 David Galloway, 29 Oct 1873; d. 1876, Dysart
2:4:1 William Galloway
died at Burnside, Auchtermuchty on 18 March, 1855 aged 11 months of Whooping
Cough.
2:4:2 Isabella Galloway,
linen factory worker, married Thomas
Briggs, Tenter in Powerloom factory, at her father’s house Overton Road,
Sinclairtown, Dysart on 3 Jan 1876. Of
their offspring daughter, Margaret, was the only surviving child:
2:4:2:1 David
Briggs, 1876, Dysart; d. 4 Oct 1877, Dysart
2:4:2:2 Margaret Ford Briggs, 22 Oct
1877, Dysart (My grandmother)
2:4:2:3 Peter Briggs, 1882; d. 1885,
Dysart
2:4:2:4 Janet Todd Briggs, 2 Nov
1887; d. 1887, Dysart
Isabella Briggs (Galloway)
died 26 Jan 1914, at 24
Loughborough Road, Sinclairtown, Dysart, aged 58y,
of a cerebral haemorrhage. Thomas Briggs
remarried to widow Christina McLerie, on 6 July1915 but died a few months later on 17 November 1915 at 381 High Street,
Kirkcaldy.
2:4:3 Peter Galloway
married Mary Catherine Robertson of
Brechin in Manchester
in 1879. He was a jeweller and, in
partnership with his cousin Peter Ford, had a business at 10 Vyse Street, Birmingham.
Several of his family members in Scotland were employed as commission
agents for the business. Family:
2:4:3:1 David Robertson Galloway,
1882, Burton upon Trent
2:4:3:2 Mabel Galloway, 1884, Burton upon Trent
2:4:3:3 Margaret Ford Galloway, 1889,
Birmingham
2:4:3:4 Catherine (Kate) Galloway, c. 1901, Handsworth
2:4:4 Elizabeth
Galloway a linenweaver in 1881, later trained with General William and Mrs
Clara Booth and was in the first group of Salvation Army workers sent to South Africa,
in 1888, to found the Salvation Army there.
She married a German engineer, Victor
Schelpia on January 7th 1895 at Cape
Town (Fife Free Press) and had one daughter:
2:4:4:1 Margaret Galloway, c. 1898, Cape Town
At the start of WW1 Victor
left and joined the German Army and is thought to have been killed. "Elizabeth
was so devastated at being deserted that she had her name and that of her
daughter legally changed back to Galloway". Margaret (Maida) Galloway
was a supervisor of telephones in Capetown.
2:4:5 Lucy Galloway,
a linenweaver married Andrew Keddie
of Dysart in 1889 in Edinburgh. At 1901 census the family was living at 30 Relief Street,
Dysart and Andrew was a Commission Agent (Jewellery) presumably for Ford and
Galloway. Family:
2:4:5:1 Margaret Mina Keddie, c. 1890,
Dysart
2:4:5:2 Violet R Keddie, 1891, Dysart
2:4:5:3 John
Keddie, c. 1892, Dysart
Lucy died in 1904 at Edinburgh.
2:4:6 Jane (Jean)
Galloway, linenweaver at census in 1881, married James Laing, a mechanical engineer of Gallatown in 1891 at Wesleyan Church,
Edinburgh.
At
1891 census the couple were living at 2 Sutherland
Street, Sinclairtown, Dysart with 7 year old daughter Isabel. The
family later emigrated to South Africa:
2:4:6:1 Margaret Ford Laing, 1892; d.
1892, Dysart
2:4:6:2 Isabel Galloway Laing, 1893, Dysart
2:4:7 Wilhelmina (
Minnie) Galloway was 14 years and a
linenweaver in 1881. She married Andrew Adamson of Dysart in 1891 at 7
Loughboro' Road, Dysart, her parents' home.
Andrew was a commission agent for Ford and Galloway silverware and later
weighman and shipping agent for Francis Colliery. Andrew and Minnie had 2 children:
2:4:7:1 John
Adamson, 1892, Dysart
2:4:7:2 Margaret Ford Adamson, 1901,
Dysart
2:4:8 Agnes (Nan)
Galloway, sailed to South Africa
on S.S. Hertzog in 1905 and also travelled there again in May 1915 sailing from
London on S.S.
Ingoma. She was engaged to marry in South Africa
but her fiance died of malaria and she later became engaged to a mine
engineer. He was killed in a mine
accident. In 1921 accompanied by Maida
Galloway, Agnes sailed to Australia
on S.S. Ceramic (16/5/21 - 10/6/21) and on to New Zealand
on S.S. Maheno (16/6/ 21 - 20/6/21). She
married Henry Fisk, a farmer of Walton in 1923.
2:4:9 David Galloway
the youngest sibling died at Overton
Road, Sinclairtown, 13 June 1876, aged 2y. 8m.